TONY MOKBEL'S EARLY LIFE

* Born Antonios Sajih Mokbel in Kuwait to Lebanese parents in 1965, his family migrated to Australia when he was eight

* Grew up in poverty in Melbourne's northern suburbs

* Started out working at his brother's pizza shop as a teenager but within six years became the head of a multi-million dollar drug empire

EARLY CONVICTIONS

* Early 1980s: Mokbel is convicted of a variety of offences, including assaults, threats to kill, resisting arrest, possessing a gun

* 1992: Sentenced to 12 months jail for trying to bribe a County Court judge

* 1998: Convicted for amphetamine manufacturing

ESCAPE TO GREECE, DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MURDER CHARGES

* March 2006: Mokbel disappears while on bail during a trial over the importation of two kilos of cocaine and is sentenced in

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